Post by Michael Bolin, Software
Engineer, Google Calendar
Google Calendar recently added support for
some fun new
features: you can now access the weather, phases of the moon, and even recent Google
Doodles directly from your calendar. These new calendars are based on a kind of event we've
added to Google Calendar, which we call "web content events." The idea is simple -- it's often
useful to have content in your calendar that isn't about a specific meeting or appointment;
you might want to see the scores from your favorite sports team, or see when your friends have
posted new photos.
By using web content events, publishers can now
expose web content of any sort directly within Google Calendar, simply by publishing a
calendar with some specific additional fields, or using the Google Calendar Data APIs
to programmatically modify a calendar.
We think this opens a whole new
world of calendar content, and we're excited to see what developers and publishers will come
up with. For more information on how to create a web content event calendar, take a look at
our tips for
getting started.
